This is the 'quiet/reflective' anniversary date. Glad I was reading the Tao, at the time. There's a ton of 'kharma' involved with what happened, how things happened, and needed to work through, at that time in my life, moving past anger towards the past, recognizing that life, the universe, the way, g-d, is rather mysterious in how life proceeds.
It was the night, my quote under my avatar stood out to me. Stayed with me. I'd written my mom, a long drawn out letter, citing several Tao passaged, yet, never delivered it, into her hands. I feel, I set it free, to the wind, not too long ago.
It shaped my world view. Not sure, I'll ever be the same, as I was prior to all of this. Toss in MS, with what I witnessed.
Literally, it was horrific, he'd mentioned his fear in October '99, surgery was in feb '00, my 'on' 'was march '00, he was bedbound by that summer. [the]Death itself, was peaceful.